News: Daniel Jacobs to fight on Cotto-Trout undercard on 12/1; Oosthuizen-Zuniga

Image: News: Daniel Jacobs to fight on Cotto-Trout undercard on 12/1; Oosthuizen-ZunigaBy Allan Fox: Former middleweight contender Daniel Jacobs (23-1, 20 KO’s) will be back in action on the undercard of the Miguel Cotto vs. Austin Trout card on December 1st against an opponent still to be determined at Madison Square Garden, in New York.

Jacobs, 25, is coming off of a 1st round knockout win last Saturday night against Josh Luteran on the Danny Garcia vs. Erik Morales undercard at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, New York. Jacobs flattened Luteran with a right, left, right combination that badly hurt him. This was Jacob’s first fight since March of last year.

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Oosthuizen-Zuniga on November 10th in South Africa

By Allan Fox: Super middleweight Thomas Oosthuizen (20-0, 13 KO’s) will be looking to take another step forward towards an eventual title shot when he faces Fulgencio Zuniga (25-5-1, 22 KO’s) in Oosthuizen’s title defense of his IBO 168 pound title at the Emperor’s Palace, in Gauteng, South Africa.

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Bute Defeats Zuniga, Wants Andrade Rematch

bute4342Photo: Tom Casino/Showtime – International Boxing Federation super middleweight champion Lucian Bute made his third successful title defense with a devastating fourth round TKO victory over Fulgencio Zuniga Friday night on SHOWTIME’s ShoBox: The New Generation from the Bell Centre in Montreal.

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Bute Stops Zuniga in Four to Retain His IBF title

bute343343By Sam Gregory:It was a full moon on Friday the thirteenth in Montreal where anything was possible tonight for the undefeated super middleweight contender Lucian Bute 23-0 with 18 KO’s returning to the ring in a scheduled 12 round bout to defend his IBF super middleweight title against 31 year old Colombian Fulgencio Zuniga 22-3 with 19 KO’s in a special World Championship edition of ShoBox: The New Generation from the Belle Centre in Montreal Quebec.

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Bute Returns to The Ring After a Controversial Win

bute5634544By Sam Gregory: On Friday March 13th, undefeated super middleweight contender Lucian Bute 23-0 with 18 KO’s will return to the ring in his hometown of Montreal to defend his IBF title for the fourth time after winning the title in Montreal on June 15th, 2007 from Sakio Bika. All of Bute’s title defenses have been fought at the same venue in Montreal using the same referee Marlon Wright; this time he will be taking on Columbian power-puncher Fulgencio Zuniga 22-3 with 19 KO’s on a special World Championship edition of ShoBox, The New Generation from Belle Centre in Montreal, Quebec.

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Bute Interview; Flores-Harrera, Latimore Waiting on Spinks – Boxing News

bute456328“I’m tired of this waiting, I’m a prize fighter not some dude working in a restaurant serving food” said Deandre “THE BULL” Latimore after a morning run in Las Vegas.

“Every day I’m in the gym here in Vegas and when we finally get in the ring I’m going to take out all my anger over this waiting out on Cory Spinks, he’s going to pay for these delays” said the St. Louis native.

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Bute vs. Zuniga on March 13th

bute34435By Sean McDaniel: After winning a his last fight by a controversial fashion, International Boxing Federation super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (23-0, 18 KOs) will be making his return on March 13th, defending his title against the IBF #10 contender Fulgencio Zuniga (22-3-1, 19 KOs) at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Bute, 28, had been in the planning stages to fight contender Mads Larsen, but he opted to fight WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler instead.

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Inkin Defeats Zuniga, Wins Vacant WBO Super Middleweight Belt

inkin5235.jpgBy Erik Schmidt: In what has to be one of the worst decisions I’ve ever witnessed in my life, undefeated super middleweight Denis Inkin (34-0, 24 KOs) defeated Fulgencio Zuniga (21-3-1, 18 KOs) by a 12-round unanimous decision to win the vacant WBO super middleweight title (formerly held by Joe Calzaghe) on Saturday night at the Color Line Arena, Altona, in Hamburg, Germany. The final judges’ scores were 117-110, 116-112 and 118-110. However, Inkin, 30, originally from Russia and now living in Germany, appeared to win only one round in the fight, the first, and badly lose all the remaining rounds.

Zuniga, 31, ranked #13 in the World Boxing Organization, out-landed Inkin approximately eight to one in every round with power shots, and seemed for the most part to be the only one really punching for vast stretches in the fight. Inkin, the number #3 ranked super middleweight in the WBO, mostly jabbed and occasionally fired off a right hand, although each time he would land anything significant, Zuniga would answer back with a flurry of power shots to the head and body. The German crowd, obviously favoring their home fighter, screamed like mad each time that Inkin would land a punch, making it seem as if he was doing much than he was.

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Zuniga Destroys Oganov

zuniga-oganov17.jpgAfter witnessing the Russian Victor Oganov’s (26-1, 26 KOs) 9th round KO loss at the hands of Colombian punching machine Fulgencio Zuniga (20-2-1, 17 KOs), I must admit that I wasn’t the overly surprised by the ease of the 9th round stoppage victory for Zuniga. I’d only seen a couple of Oganov’s fights – against Sam Reese and Richard Grant – but that was all I needed to see to know that Oganov was overrated and wasn’t in the same class as Zuniga. As it turns out, I was correct. In this regard, Oganov represents the class of that is built up over time by throwing him in with overly soft opposition, in other words, fighters that he can easily beat to help build an impressive knockout record.

All those KO victories for Oganov looked impressive on paper, but when you dug deeper and saw who they were against, you quickly discovered that only two of the names were recognizable, and neither of them were ranked in the top 10.

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